Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF0857

1E Requiring the commissioner of health to set premium growth limits for health
plan companies; specifying procedures for setting premium growth limits;
authorizing an additional percentage of the premium growth rate to be added to
finance implementation of the electronic medical record system; authorizing the
commissioner to add additional percentages under certain major disaster,
bioterrorism or public health emergencies; requiring the commissioner to publish
premium growth limits; clarifying the measuring and calculation of premium
growth; requiring the commissioner to establish annual health care expenditure
limits not to exceed premium limits; defining health care expenditures;
requiring the commissioner to collect and maintain data for the purpose of
setting premium growth limits and measuring compliance; requiring cost
containment data to be broken down to distinguish between the individual market,
the small group market and the large group market
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